Two Virginia Tech students were arrested Thursday morning for the reckless firing of a firearm.
Blacksburg Police arrested Nandi Stoja and Jonathan Lasater early Thursday morning in the 10000 block of Blue Ridge Drive in Foxridge Apartments for the accidental discharge of a firearm.
A news release from the Blacksburg Police said that Stoja unintentionally discharged a 9mm semi-automatic handgun and later his roommate, Lasater, accidently discharged the same handgun when he attempted to unload it.
Stoja's shot exited his bedroom through an exterior window and struck an unoccupied vehicle in an adjacent parking lot. The second shot lodged in the bedroom wall below the outside ground level. No one was injured from either gunshot.
Both Stoja, a civil engineering major, and Lasater, a chemical engineering student, were charged with reckless handling of a firearm and each was released on a $1,500 unsecured bond by the Montgomery County magistrate.
Initial court appearances are set for May 7 in Blacksburg General District Court.
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On one hand it's glad to see students taking a proactive approach to their own safety by owning firearms, but safety first, gentleman.
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jesuschrist some people are idiots
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"Proactive in their own safety"? Really? Sounds more like endangering the community with recklessness. It is absurd to think allowing handguns on college campuses will do anything but result in "accidental" injury and death.
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remind me why this is the ct?
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To "Enough": I agree that Alum's comments may be alarming, but the point is correct: if you have an interest in a gun for self-defense, the first thing you must do is learn to use it properly, even before you load it. That aside, the larger problem is that people on both sides of the argument often use anecdotal evidence to support their stance. We need to be looking at overall statistics to do a proper cost/benefit analysis of the issue. There are examples of guns being successfully used in defensive situations, and examples of mishandling that results in danger to others. The question is how they stack up when you look at the whole picture. Arguments like "if one life is saved by the elimination of guns, it is worth it" have no place in honest discussion. This is not a black and white issue.
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What people forget is that when carrying on campus, it would be holstered 100% of the time. Holstered means no one has it out playing with it like these two clowns were.
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To enough of the guns already, this sort of thing happens everyday, idiots playing with guns accidentally shoot something. But first of all this incident did not occur on campus, and second of all the students ended up being charged and arrested for an accident. I would be willing to bet money that neither of these students have obtained a conceal carry permit or even shoot someone if they tried. However, from this instance to conclude that allowing students to carry on campus would result in similiar results is whats really absurd. There are 32 much better reasons for trained students to carry on campus than this one meager incident.
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32 would have been just a start when students start running around campus with guns thinking they were protecting the campus. You are very naive if you believe the police would not start dropping ANYONE with a gun. I am not so sure they would take the time to check papers during a crisis. The CTC movement on college campuses is a loud minority. No one is saying you cannot have guns, just not on campus. Any efforts made by these individuals is an effort to puff their chests and fan the fires.
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Yes, students running around on campus waving their weapons is exactly what would happen. And what would make anyone think that students would continue to handle their weapons in the presence of police officers to get "dropped." The entire point of having weapons on campus would be to secure the situation and protect yourself UNTIL police arrive. Maybe its the drugs but I don't understand how anyone could honestly think that campus would be a scene out of braveheart with people running wild with pistols completely out of control.
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